The classic and much-loved memoir by Hannah Hauxwell about life in remote Yorkshire in the 1970s.
Hannah Hauxwell was born in 1926. She has lived her whole life in the Dales and was the focus of the award-winning documentary Too Long a Winter.
The world's favourite Daleswoman
*YORKSHIRE POST*
When Hannah Hauxwell speaks, people listen. She possesses a quality
which cannot properly be defined
*THE JOURNAL*
Yorkshire farmer and recluse, Hannah Hauxwell lived a hard life,
alone on her small Pennine farm - until she became an unlikely TV
star in the 1970s ... Hannah's humility, simplicity and strange
accent - a mix of Yorkshire and Northumbrian with a Scandinavian
lilt - touched many viewers ... Hannah's attachment to Low Birk
Hatt remained with her for life: "My heart and soul will always be
up on the Dales,"
*COUNTRYFILE MAGAZINE*
Anyone who watched the amazing documentary will want to read
SEASONS OF MY LIFE
*LANCASHIRE MAGAZINE*
She brings the reader back to the essentials
*MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS*
[Hauxwell] was living a harsh existence as a hill farmer in the
Yorkshire Dales, without electricity or running water, when the
1973 television documentary Too Long a Winter turned her into a
national celebrity
*GUARDIAN*
When Hannah Hauxwell speaks, people listen. She possesses a quality
which cannot properly be defined.
*The Journal (Newcastle)*
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